Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/krs8ezg1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (113 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Charlie McCarthy, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/klzpgkqd · ★★☆☆ Fair (53 ratings) · submitted 1997
Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.
tiny.ag/ljkvotgg · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · submitted 1997
No vacation goes unpunished.
tiny.ag/zjurgdnl · ★★☆☆ Fair (41 ratings) · submitted 1997
If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.
tiny.ag/sk2lr8ad · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
tiny.ag/g9nfhw0y · ★★☆☆ Fair (552 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
tiny.ag/1ywkwx4s · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/8dojvkdg · ★★☆☆ Fair (202 ratings) · submitted 1997
Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!
tiny.ag/veiyrnvp · ★★☆☆ Fair (897 ratings) · submitted 1997
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/tymlwb79 · ★★☆☆ Fair (3392 ratings) · submitted 1997
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/gfpih4lb · ★★☆☆ Fair (315 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
tiny.ag/rxjp4mey · ★★☆☆ Fair (324 ratings) · submitted 1997
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
tiny.ag/lsxp5q2w · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
tiny.ag/i5ba47dl · ★★☆☆ Fair (478 ratings) · submitted 1997
It gets late early out there.
Yogi Berra, (on Yankee Stadium in the fall), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/pftkqbv2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (254 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
tiny.ag/g6oi3hzo · ★★☆☆ Fair (1079 ratings) · submitted 1997
We trained hard, but it seemed that everytime we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.
Unknown, (sometimes incorrectly attributed to Petronius Arbiter), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/ljsjuhkx · ★★☆☆ Fair (826 ratings) · submitted 1997
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/ijspqkhd · ★★☆☆ Fair (213 ratings) · submitted 1997
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
tiny.ag/kwzypjqf · ★★☆☆ Fair (475 ratings) · submitted 1997
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
tiny.ag/qse5ziat · ★★☆☆ Fair (701 ratings) · submitted 1998
Give a man a fish and he'll ask for a lemon. Teach a man to fish and he'll leave work early on Friday.
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